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The Present Is an Illusion

August 17, 2019
By icelantis PLATINUM, Balko, Oklahoma
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icelantis PLATINUM, Balko, Oklahoma
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Favorite Quote:
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."<br /> - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Present is an illusion

Anything that was Future

Is instantaneously committed to the Past.


Living in the Moment, the Now

Is no possibility

There is only Death, and the Nothingness beyond.

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